Payment protection pain in the proverbial

I am not generally in favour of capital punishment but the next person to call me about reclaiming Payment Protection Insurance I will happily string from the nearest lamp post myself.

Three calls and a couple of silent calls this morning so far and about five yesterday, four the day before . . . and I am registered with the Telephone Preference Service as not wanting cold callers. It has become a telephonic disease.

Some outfit called Consumer Money Matters seem to be regular culprits with a heady mix of silent calls and highly persistent youths who think a polite "no I am not interested" means come in and have a cup of tea, I'll stop whatever it was I was doing and have a chat.